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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Holland District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Holland website
34,889 approved · 4,188 refused · 1,258 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Sept 1990 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
We haven’t verified direct planning guidance links for this authority yet. Use its official website in Council sources.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The Presbytery 52 St Thomas Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2XX
Received 28 Mar 2013Stockwell Gate East Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Jan 19966 ST JOHNS ROAD WESTON HILLS SPALDING PE12 6DG
Received 21 Sept 201815 STARLODE DROVE WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3TD
Received 10 Jun 2021Adjacent The Priory Northons Lane Holbeach
Received 27 Nov 200723 Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 15 Nov 2002Lannercroft Cobgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TD
Received 19 Apr 2005Fulney Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Feb 2000Adj Holly Cottage Old Fen Dike Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HE
Received 13 Nov 2024TYSDALE MANOR COMMON WAY TYDD ST MARY SPALDING PE13 5QH
Received 9 Dec 202014 SHERWOOD DRIVE SPALDING PE11 1QP
Received 20 Jul 2021Parish of Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Jan 2011Units 1 and 2 Station Street Holbeach
Received 7 Apr 200526 Woods Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1AN
Received 11 Jul 2001Land north The Oaks 251 Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs PE12 0LT
Received 14 Feb 2019Land off Peterborough Road Crowland
Received 22 Apr 2015Kentfields Woodhouse Lane Holbeach
Received 14 Sept 2001Land off Pearl Court Holbeach
Received 3 Dec 200714 Union Street Fleet Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7BA
Received 18 Jul 2001Plot 1, Apple Crumble Court Off Belchmire Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jan 200113 Church View Close Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UB
Received 15 Jan 2002Adjacent to Braemar Coalbeach Lane Surfleet Spalding PE11 4BL
Received 16 Oct 201444 FEN END LANE SPALDING PE12 6AD
Received 20 Jan 2017Plots 8 and 9 St Johns Road Spalding
Received 29 Jul 2008Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for South Holland District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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